TY - BOOK AU - Numrich,Carol ED - National Public Radio (U.S.) TI - Face the issues: intermediate listening and critical thinking skills SN - 0201846721 U1 - 428.34 PY - 1997/// CY - White Plains, N.Y. PB - Longman KW - Critical thinking KW - Problems, exercises, etc KW - English language KW - Textbooks for foreign speakers KW - Listening KW - Readers KW - Current events N1 - 1. If it smells like fish, forget it! - 2. Living through divorce. - 3. A couch potato. - 4. The bible hospital. - 5. A boy's shelter for street people. - 6. The four new food groups. - 7. The dirty dozen. - 8. From one world to another. - 9. Attached to crime. - 10. Meet you on the air. - 11. There are worse things than dying. - 12. A healthier way of looking at men and women; Accompanied by : 2 sound cassettes. Cassette 1 : Units 1-6 (38 min.) - Cassette 2 : Units 7-12 (46 min.) ISBN 0201695189 N2 - Face the Issues is an exciting and highly successful approach to listening comprehension and discussion for intermediate and high-intermediate students. Each of the twelve units is based on an authentic radio broadcast taken from National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" and "Morning Edition." Students are presented with interesting and relevant content in unedited everyday speech including hesitations, redundancies, and various dialectical patterns. - Back cover ER -